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A94261	The crovvne of righteousnes: or, The glorious reward of fidelity in the discharge of our duty. As it was laid forth in a sermon, preached in S. Botolphs Aldersgate, London, Sept. 25. 1653. At the solemn funerall of Mr. Abrah: Wheelock, B. D. the first publick professor, and reader of Arabick, and of the Saxon, in the University of Cambridge. Whereunto is added, an encomium of him. / By William Sclater Doctor in Divinity, now preacher of the Word of God in Broad-street, Lond.	Sclater, William, 1609-1661.	1653 (1653)	Wing S916; Thomason E221_6; ESTC R4044	30,757	39

THE CROWNE OF RIGHTEOUSNES OR The glorious Reward of FIDELITY In the Discharge of our DUTY As it was laid forth in a Sermon preached in S. Botolphs Aldersgate London Sept. 25. 1653. At the solemn Funerall of Mr. Abrah Wheelock B. D. The first Publick Professor and Reader of Arabick and of the Saxon in the University of CAMBRIDGE Whereunto is added An ENCOMIUM of HIM By WILLIAM SCLATER Doctor in Divinity Now Preacher of the Word of God in Broad-street Lond. DAN 12.3 They that be wise or Teachers shall shine as the brightness of the Firmament and they that turn many to righteousness as the Starres for ever and ever LONDON Printed by J. G. for John Clarke and are to be sold at his shop under S. Peter's Church in Cornhill 1654. To the Right Worshipfull Thomas Adams Esq Alderman of the City of London a Patron of Learning and a Patterne of True Piety the eternity of Happiness Worthy Sir THat which I have in my inward thoughts secretly wished for the Divine Providence hath now by an unexpected Act presented to my hands a seasonable opportunity wherein I might make you some more than a private Testimony of my acknowledgements for your personall regards to my selfe and withall as publick as might be for your munificence to my ever honoured Mother the Vniversity of Cambridge where for above twenty years last past out of a pure glory to God in the advancing the Orientall Learning you erected and ever since continued at your own proper cost an Arabick Lecture the praise whereof were a task more meet I confesse for an elegant Orator chosen by her selfe than for one of my so retired and obnubilated a condition The much lamented decease of the learned Professor Mr. Abrah Wheelock who read it and of whom a more full mention is made in the close gave occasion to this sudden Sermon which being through a vehement importunity extorted from me beyond all imagination of mine own after preaching and so put to the Press there could be no more proper Patron for it thought upon than your self of whom I have many things to say but that I am overwhelmed with copiousness of matter there being no spirituall or good gift wherein you are as S. Paul said of his Converts the Corinthians a 1 Cor. 1.7 behind yea wherein you do not excell your very outward presence as some rare beneficent star appearing with a desired and pleasing influence winneth you a venerable observance of all Orthodox Christians and good men who cannot depart from you but much improved and made better by your most eximious and transcendent example in * Luk. 1.6 Act. 24.16 all piety towards God equity towards men I need not mention your Ethicks or moral part sith if the vigorous exercise of all the vertues were not interrupted only but lost elsewhere it might be all repaired from your † Eph. 5.15 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 accurate practise in your religious part an Israelite b Joh. 1.47 indeed without faction without ostentation your soule is made the c 1 Cor. 3.16 Temple for the Holy Spirit to dwell in by his graces which are diffused in so delectable a variety that as those fragrant spices upon which the South winde blew in the Garden of the spouse they d Cant. 4.16 flow out and are become as a sweet perfume to attract Observers To men of learning a known Maecenas yea a Sanctuary To Gods faithfull Ministers an e Rom. 12.13 hospitable f Rom. 16.23 Gaius a bountifull and a most encouraging Benefactor g 1 Thes 5.12 13. 1 Tim. 5.17 esteeming them highly in love for their works sake of all Gods k Ps 122.1 publike Ordinances a due honouror a most conscientious l Act. 26.7 frequenter In private also the devotion of your house hath made it an house of m 1 Cor. 16.19 devotion where like the double motion of the lungs what is drawn in by prayers is breathed forth again in n Psal 118.15 prayses and thanksgiving Your faith is operative o Gal. 5.6 working by love expressed p 1 Tim. 6.18 in rich r 2 Cor. 9.13 Prov. 11.25 liberality towards every good work full of s 2 Cor. 9.7 cheerfull t Act. 10.2 Almes-giving the u Job 311.20 loynes of the poore and naked blesse you in the streets and the bowels of many w 2 Tim. 1.16.18 refreshed by your hands as S. Paul's were by Onesiphorus occasion uncessant prayers for you And that which yet adds a beauty to all the rest and proves alwayes as the most rich and fairest * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a curious Knot knot decking the garment of other graces is your great x 1 Pet. 5.5 humility attended with all y 1 Pet. 3.8 courteous affability and most z 2 Cor. 6.6 Col. 3.13 2 Pet. 1.7 kind a Ro. 12.16 condescensions as in whose lips is the b Pro. 31 26 law of kindness and in whose life a c Phil. 1.15 shining exemplar of the d 2 Ti. 3.5 power of godliness and all solid Christianity All which considered my weak endeavours cannot but triumph in such a protection which now they shrowd themselves under not doubting to speed the better for the Name of the Patron The discourse I acknowledge is impolite yet Orthodox I hope and Thelogically substantiall the subject matter is no less than of a Crown of Righteousness so that however as it comes from me it casteth no great lustre outwardly yet much what like to the stone Garamantides intus habet aureas guttas it hath drops of gold within it selfe enriching the believing soule with the hopes and assured expectation of a joyfull reward of its fidelity in Gods service by a blissful immortality Vnto the certain fruition whereof that you and with your selfe all yours all your relations yea all Gods e Mat. 24. elect by Christ nay after you have yet continued longer to f Tit. 2.10 adorn the Gospel be at last advanced is and ever shall be the most constant prayer of Sir Your most affectionate Servant to be commanded in the Lord Christ Will Sclater 2 TIM 4.7 8. I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the Faith Henceforth there is laid up for me a Crowne of Righteousnesse which the Lord the Righteous Judge shall give me at that Day and not to me only but unto them also who love his Appearing I Shall not deteine you by any impertinent Preface sith the shortnesse of time for this Service together with the indulgence of this so Learned an Auditory anticipates an Apology and gives hopes of much Candor under so manifold Impraeparations And so I addresse my selfe to the serious businesse of my Text The scope whereof amounts to this summe Namely to comfort Timothy about the nigh approach of Saint Pauls Martyrdome mentioned

observed by the Hebrews that in the Essentiall Name of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all the Letters are Litera quiescentes Letters of Rest to denote that without God there can be no solid joy or quietnesse of Soule which will still be tossed in a kinde of restlesse inconsistency till it doe indeed terminate at last in him which made that man so much after Gods owne heart as in a flame of fervent zeale experimentally to put the question Psal 73.25 Whom have I in Heaven but thee and there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee The next particular that fals under my consideration is the time of donation when this Reward is to be actually conferred expressed to be in That Day and at the Lords appearing These s 1 Tim. 4.1 and 2 Tim. 3.1 latter times into which the t 1 Cor. 10.11 ends of the world are fallen abounding as men in old age with variety of u Mund●● senescens patitur phantasias Gerson phancies have given us occasion to enquire what Day of the Lords appearance it is which is here meant whether it be the great and w Act 2.20 2 Tit. 4.1 notable day of the x Joh. 6.39 40 41. last generall Judgement or else of some other manifestation of the Lord Christ upon earth before that last day of all doth come There are some otherwise abundantly knowing whose wits have herein proved more wanton than their judgements solid whose apprehensions have led them to conjecture if not to believe an appearance of the Lord Christ personally in a way of raigne and triumph to be manifested upon earth a thousand yeares before the last day of the Generall Judgement such in the Greek expression are called Chiliasts and by the Latines y Vid. Aug. lib. 20. De Civ Dei c. 7 Philastr c. 59. De Heres Aug. De Heres c. 8. Mistenaryes some have fetched the name and conceit so high as from z Euseb 1.3 c. 25. Histor Ecclesiast Cerinthus a blasphemous Heretick even in the dayes of the Apostles themselves who daringly avouching the Lord Christ to be no more than a meer man and borne after the common way of humane generation which gave occasion to S. John that soaring a Euch. 1.10 Eagle to write that his so sublime Gospel wherein in the very b Joh. 1.1 2 c. entrance of it He proves his Divine Nature He gave out that after the resurrection there should be in the great City Jerusalem an outward way of pomp and a kinde of voluptuous indulgence to corporall vanityes and delights during the terme of a thousand yeares which opinion He was thought to have sucked from the Breasts of the Jewish Synagogue that people mistaking the nature and quality of Christs c Mat. 20.21 A 1.6 Kingdome thinking it to be after an externall glory and not as it is indeed consisting d Luk. 17 21. within in the soule after a e Rom. 14.17 spirirtuall manner ruling and raigning over the spirituall part of man But this Blasphemer being exploded and cryed down by all the Primitively-Orthodox Fathers and Christians as the Historyes of those Times informe us The next who most clearely speak of it or was indeed supposed the first who more directly vented the opinion was one Papias Bishop of Hieropolis as f Euseb l. 3. c. 36. Eccl. Hist Eusebius acquaints us a man of a weak and slender judgement who if not utterly neglecting yet but slightly valuing the Authority of the Holy Scriptures pretended for his conceit Apostolicall Traditions and by reason of the venerable name of Antiquity it is not to be denyed but that some of the ancient Fathers received some tang of the same opinion from him as may be seen or collected of g Justin Martyr Dialog Cum Triphon Jud pag. 239 Justin Martyr and in the end of Trajans time h Baron in Annal. Ann 118. sect 2. Hieron in Catalog illustr cap. de Papiâ Apollinarius i Tertul. l. 3. advers Marc. c. 24. Tertullian too much misled by Montane and Lactantius who were in part spiced with this Millenarisme so perilous a thing it proves to the Supine and out of a secure or carelesse disregard to suffer Humane Tradition to become a Diotrephes and to have the l 3 Epist John 9. preheminence above the infallibity of the undoubted Scriptures which sacred and unerring written Word of God doth hold forth as of certaine credibility inspired by the Divine and first verity that can never deceive no such clear truth that the Lord Christ shall in Person before the General Resurrection come visibly and corporally upon the earth and as by a m Re 20.6 first resurrection cause all those who dyed n Re. 14.13 in and for him to arise and with him in a peacefull tranquility and glory to reigne and to beare sway over the wicked as Vassals for a thousand yeares which date of time being expired immediately shall ensue the General Resurrection and the day of the last Judgement No such evidentiall verity is demonstrated in Holy Writ as of Absolute Necessity to be believed unto salvation But whatsoever is alledged out of the prophetick Scriptures for the stablishing of that opinion is to be understood either of the first coming of Christ in the flesh or of the state of the N. T. in generall or else of the glorious estate of the Church triumphant to be expected hereafter in the eternall Kingdome for ever in Heaven as o Joh Gerard loc com To. 9. c 7. sect 80 Gerard judiciously I have not time to alledge or you patience to heare on this occasion the severall Texts cited by the Chiliasts or of the Orthodox many p See Bish Hall in his Revelations unrevealed edit 1650. D. Prid serm on 2 Pet. 3.13 serm on Joh. 6.14 Per. Dem. of Probl. vid. Dierer In die fest Bar. Ap. p. 7 14. c. vol. 4. Bul. l. 2. c. 11. con●r Anabapt sixt Senens l. 6. Annot. 347. reverend and renowned Divines have eased us all of that labour let it suffice at the present to take notice from our Saviours own lips that his Kingdome is not of this world John 18.36 but within us Luke 17.21 and from Heaven and besides we finde in our Creed which is founded on k Lactant. l. 7 c. 24. Institut the Scriptures and may in every article thereof be q Art 6. of the Ch of England proved by them we finde I say in our Creed mention made but of two visible comings of Christ the first in r Phil. ● 8 Mat. 21.5 Humility to suffer and to be judged the other at the end of the world but not before in the s 2 Pet. 1.17 glory of his Father to t Acts 17.31 2 Tim. 4.1 1 Pet. 4.5 judge the world both quick and dead in righteousnesse and unto them that look for him